Translated "Avante!" article by Angelo Alves, Member of the PCP Political Committee and Member of the International Department

NATO’s summit final statement 134 points, are permeated by one lie: that NATO is being threatened from everywhere, facing “ many security threats and challenges, originated both from the East and South; of state and non-state performers; military forces and terrorist, cybernetic and hybrid attacks”. Among all the “dangers” one is outstanding: “ the Russia aggressive actions”. On what concerns NATO, the ”danger” justifies decisions, such as the expansion and the entry in functions of the antimissile system, the placing of four combat battalions, of 4000 men, in Estonia, Lithonia, Lithuania and Poland, a greater concentration of air and naval means in the Baltic, Arctic, Mediterranean and Black Seas or otherwise, the NATO reaffirming as a “nuclear alliance”.

Now NATO, that currently states to be “surrounded” by “dangers”, is the very same NATO that participated , under the USA leadership, in the Iraq war, in 2003. A war, the Chilcot British report confirms to have been based on lies, under the “threat” of the so-called “ massive destruction weapons”. The report proves that the responsible for that gigantic crime falsified proofs and hindered reports on the previewed consequences of that same war, both for the people of Iraq, the destabilization of the region and a stimulus for terrorist organizations.

In other words, NATO reversed reality and built lies in order to attack a people and a country. The same was carried out in Yugoslavia, Afghanistan and Libya, three examples among others, and on what concerns Russia, is carrying out the same tactics, using reality reverse on Ukraine’s conflict.
Besides giving its contribution to call Blair, Barroso, Aznar and Bush to responsibility, and to condemn them as criminals, the Chilcot report demonstrates that NATO is a war and lie factory, by using the consequences of its war policy to justify more militarism and war, within a violence and aggression vicious circle, with unpredictable consequences for Humanity.

The vicious circle logics is also used in the economic field. The “sanctions” operation against Portugal is a proof. If there were any doubts, recent statements of leaders such as Schauble, Juncker or Dijsselbloem, were clear on the objective of pure and simple blackmail against Portugal, with the purpose of settling “back on track” exploitation and impoverishment policies. In the essential, the same blackmail used to subject Greece, the same logics that conducted Portugal to four years of social terror and economic destruction. A logics that holds an ideology, associated to policies – issued from the European Union – and has identifiable faces. One of them, Durão Barroso, the Iraq war butler, and for that, received a “prize”, being named as the European Commission president, and from Brussels, monitored a new war, of economic and social nature, against all peoples in Europe.

At the end of such important commissions, at the capital and imperialism service, Barroso has just received, a new prize, placing himself at the very top of the system – the Goldman Sachs, the bank that” performs God’s work”. The same Goldman Sachs, placed in the centre of speculation on the sovereign debts of countries such as Portugal, Ireland or Greece, and falsified the Greek accounts, in order to that country become a member of the Euro, and after, profiting thousand of millions upon its foundering. The bank where names such as Mario Draghi, the ECB’s president or Romano Prodi, the European Commission former president, passed through.
No way how to conceal. Promiscuity between economic and political power reached a total dimension, and that very same promiscuity is in the origin of the blackmails and pressures over many the peoples. And more. As these sequence of events prove, exploitation, oppression and war are indivisible instruments of imperialist domain. As shameless lies. And as the music says: “ all is connected”.